paranoianovel Chapter 77 Remnants of the Rudraksha Retinue
Chapter 77 Remnants of the Rudraksha Retinue
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The caravan headed towards Orario.
As everyone expected, with Roy, a Level 2 guild leader, escorting them, the journey was uneventful. After all, it was just a small merchant guild, not a major corporation, and only petty thieves would target them.
With just a little effort, Roy could easily wipe out those bandits; it was like smurfing a low-level game.
Roy didn't hold back. After all, he wanted to be thorough. This caravan wasn't coming just once. If he let them go, they would be the ones to suffer in the future. A few days later, the caravan was more than 100 kilometers away from Orario and could already see the outline of the Tower of Babel.
Everyone was overjoyed. This was probably their most successful trip yet. Having a high-level adventurer in charge made them feel very reassured.
They even considered spending a large sum of money to hire Roy long-term, but after unexpectedly learning Roy's identity along the way, they had no choice but to abandon the idea.
This young man is no ordinary LV.2 adventurer. He is a super rookie of the Astrea Familia, known as the "Budding of Justice". It would be a waste of talent for such a promising adventurer to stay in their merchant guild.
"Mr. Roy, we owe you so much for this trip." The fat man excitedly shook Roy's hand.
"It's alright, I had a very good trip." Roy smiled. This was not just polite talk, but the truth. The caravan had taken very good care of him in terms of food, clothing, and lodging, treating him like a king.
Even after he killed a monster and his body was stained with its blood, the caravan provided him with precious water to bathe in—a treatment that even the guild leader didn't receive.
If one chooses to return alone, they will be living a savage life completely unrelated to civilization.
The fat man silently increased Roy's reward to 20,000 Fali. Besides paying the reward, he also had the intention of befriending Roy. As long as nothing unexpected happened, Roy had a high chance of becoming a Level 5 or Level 6 adventurer in the future. Befriending him now would bring endless benefits in the future.
Then, the fat man clapped his hands, "There's still some distance to go, everyone stay alert!"
The convoy received continuous responses from both the front and rear.
Suddenly, Roy calmly said, "Stop!"
The order spread quickly, and the entire convoy immediately stopped. The guards drew their weapons and became alert.
Roy was able to detect the enemy earlier than they did, a fact that had been proven countless times along the way.
"There, about two hundred meters away."
Roy's gaze drifted to the distant sloping hillside, where a faint scent wafted from the grass.
Pitter-patter! Pitter-patter!
Roy activated his magic, golden lightning surged from his palm, transforming into a long spear of lightning. He gripped it in his backhand, his muscles tensed, and he took a sudden step forward, throwing the lightning spear.
call out!
With a powerful whooshing sound, the Thunder Spear seemed to transform into a bolt of lightning striking down from the sky, instantly traversing the distance and piercing into the grass.
The two men lurking in the bushes were pierced through the chest by the spears, and the terrifying force of the spears sent them flying, pinning them to a large tree.
The thick tree trembled incessantly, and its leaves fluttered in the air.
The lightning on the spear spread to the two men's bodies, and they quickly lost their life force.
"Are you kidding me? There are two hundred meters here!"
"It's magic!"
The bandits lurking nearby turned pale with fright.
"As is customary, you protect the caravan!" Roy shouted, charging forward alone.
"yes!"
The caravan guards responded loudly, watching Roy's swift retreating figure with adoration.
In just a few days, Roy used his superior strength to subdue this group of warriors, and his words carried more weight in the caravan than those of the fat man, the guild leader.
No matter where you are, overwhelming power is the primary factor that commands respect.
On the other hand, two hundred meters is nothing to Roy.
In less than three seconds, Roy appeared in front of the bushes and charged into the flock of sheep like a vicious wolf, reaping the lives of the bandits.
In the blink of an eye, corpses littered the fields.
This is the mark of a high-level adventurer; often, a single individual can decide the outcome of a melee involving hundreds of people.
Just as Roy had killed most of the bandits and set his sights on a man with a pointed face and monkey-like features.
The other person knelt smoothly on the ground, pleading urgently, "Wait! Justice is in the air! Please spare my life!"
Roy paused, staring at the other's face. His memory was excellent, practically photographic. After a moment's thought, he said, "You're the 'Groundhog' of the Rudra Familia, the one with the guild's bounty of 80,000 Fali?"
Yes, yes.
The man with the pointed mouth and monkey-like cheeks forced a smile.
As a dark faction, they naturally could not receive titles bestowed by the gods; instead, adventurers would give them nicknames based on their actions.
Roy remarked, "So there really are remnants."
The Rudrak clan did not register their numbers with the guild, so no one knew exactly how many people they had.
The bounty was used to lure adventurers and eliminate some of them, while he and Ryu took down the enemy's main force on the tenth floor.
However, a very small number of people did not enter the tenth level and remained on the upper level. When they saw that things were not going well, they ran away as fast as they could, their cunning comparable to that of a fox.
"Do you think I'll let you go?" Roy retorted, a hint of murderous intent in his eyes.
"The seeds of justice are sown. If you spare my life, I'm willing to tell you information about the other remnants of the gang so I can help you wipe them out in one fell swoop."
In order to save his life from Roy, the man spilled out all the information he knew.
As Roy listened to the man's account, he frowned. About ten members of the Rudraksha clan had escaped, including three LV.2 members.
Rudra was sent back to the heavens, and the blessings bestowed upon this group were automatically sealed. They dared not remain in Orario, but instead fled outside, converted to the fold of another evil god, and regained the power of their blessings.
Seeing how ruthless he and Ryu were in wiping out the Apollo Familia, this group of people dared not return to Orario. Instead, they gathered a band of bandits outside and became kings of the mountains.
They used their bandit identity as cover to lull the adventurers who were hunting them into a false sense of security.
It hasn't been discovered for so long.
That wasn't what made Roy frown.
Instead, this group occupied the surrounding transportation routes, arrested many people, and, in remembrance of the god Rudra, burned more than a dozen people every day to sacrifice living people to the god.
Such brutal behavior would certainly have been condemned in his previous life, but in this world with all sorts of gods, Roy might not be able to guarantee its effectiveness.
"--That's how it is. I was forced into it. Since escaping Orario, I haven't killed a single person. I've reformed." The man sobbed uncontrollably, his acting incredibly convincing.
But if Roy were to believe a single punctuation mark from the other person, he might as well kill himself by banging his head against a wall.
"Since you've sincerely repented, then come with me!" Roy patted the other person on the shoulder.
The man's face stiffened. "Where are you going?"
"Of course, it's your headquarters!"